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• A skating battle.

Japan’s star Yuzuru Hanyu and Nathan Chen of a U.S., above, are among those to watch currently during a 2018 Winter Games. (In Chen’s giveaway skate, he’ll dance to a story of “Mao’s Last Dancer,” a Chinese defector, Li Cunxin — who is now a artistic executive of a Queensland Ballet in Brisbane, Australia.)

• A long-awaited blood exam to detect concussions, that can means critical mind injuries, won capitulation in a U.S. BioMérieux, an ubiquitous partner of a U.S.-based maker, Banyan Biomarkers, says that, around a world, about 10 million people a year are treated for concussion-related injuries.

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• A comparison ubiquitous from Myanmar is in Bangladesh to plead repatriating some of a roughly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled recently underneath troops assaults. Few design a talks to succeed. [The New York Times]

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• China pronounced it was “firmly opposed” to a revisit a Indian primary minister, Narendra Modi, done to a contested area along a dual countries’ border. Mr. Modi was on a debate forward of Sunday’s state elections in a region. [Reuters]

• A health journal available what it believes to be a initial documented box of inducing breast divert in a transgender woman. [The New York Times]

• “The anniversary inquisition”: Chinese millennials are anticipating artistic ways to understanding with a vigour of being nagged about attribute and career choices. (A sweater on an online selling portal reads: “I don’t have a partner.”) [Sixth Tone]

• Our Australia business arch asked readers what a new chronicle of a 1986 film “Crocodile Dundee” competence demeanour like — and they didn’t disappoint.

• And a long-lost aria of American rice, once grown by deferential Africans, was detected in a Caribbean. Scientists trust it trafficked from Southeast Asia to West Africa between a 16th and 18th centuries.

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Today outlines a start of a Year of a Dog, a latest spin in a 12-year lunar zodiac cycle.

The word “Lunar New Year” is infrequently used interchangeably with “Chinese New Year,” though there are variations in how a holiday is distinguished around Asia.

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In Vietnam, a form of rice cake called banh chung is done specifically for a holiday and is deeply intertwined with jingoist misconceptions and ancestor-worship customs.

Vietnam’s lunar zodiac cycle also differs somewhat from China’s: It has a cat and a H2O buffalo instead of a rabbit and an ox. Some historians contend that’s a linguistic gift tied to China’s 1,000-year majestic function of Vietnam, a southern neighbor.

Vietnam’s subsequent Year of a Cat falls in 2023.

The final time around, a owners of a “pet hotel” in a capital, Hanoi, told Reuters that a cat was an suitable vast choice since it helps to equivalent a dog, a healthy enemy.

“This expresses a change of yin and yang in a creation that is some-more complete, that improved unifies a contradictions, and so it is richer and improved to have a cat,” he said.

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